A partly broken cockle shell with a figure of a goddess with outstretched arms was also found recently during ploughing by a tractor.

This explains why cockle shells can be found preserved in the soil.

We sunbathed near a protected manatee area where the shoreline was speckled with pink cockle shells.

Get there early (official opening, 8 a.m.) for flawless sand dollars, lightning whelks and cockle shells.

A rhyme that was submitted dozens of times starts, "Bluebells, cockle shells, eevie, ivy, over."

He had' thirty cockle shells on the table before him and he shuffled and counted them.

Ready to go on to the Isle, the Crescent Landers had found no boat, not even a cockle shell, along the entire shore.

Each Portreeve gets to wear a traditional gold chain of cockle shells with their name and date of service, inscribed on the back.

Silver bells and cockle shells And pretty girls all of a row!

The interior of the vestry is completely lined with cockle shells, the emblem of Saint James.